New York fracking deadline to come and go

11:38 AM,
Feb. 27, 2013

Written by

Jon Campbell
Albany Bureau

With New York's review of large-scale hydraulic fracturing in its 55th month, the state's proposed regulations for the process are set to expire Wednesday.

State regulators signaled earlier this month they would miss the deadline as they finish a review of fracking's potential health impacts and whether the proposed rules would do enough to protect against them. But the soon-to-be-missed due date sparked another round of criticism from gas-drilling supporters and calls from opponents to open the review to the public.

"From the start, (Governor) Andrew Cuomo has tried to have it both ...